Cheapo paint job

Dupli-Color describes lacquer as "durable", and enamels as "very durable". This is, at best, a generous description, and at odds with what professionals are saying. Marketing aside, lacquer paints are not considered durable.

Dupli-Color describes lacquer as "durable", and enamels as "very durable". This is, at best, a generous description, and at odds with what professionals are saying. Marketing aside, lacquer paints are not considered durable.

You can't directly price compare a quart of Duplicolor to a quart of say, single stage traditional auto paint. Car paint must be "reduced" (like adding paint thinner) before spraying. At about a 50-50 ratio. Therefore a quart of such paint will make two quarts of usable paint. Duplicolor comes "ready to apply". Therefore we can say that it is only half a quart of paint and half reducer. Therefore you'd have to buy two to seemingly equal a quart of single stage paint. To carry it further, it's a fair estimate that you need around a gallon of paint to paint an average car. Plus a gallon of reducer, of course. Painters have noted that it takes quite a bit more lacquer to provide coverage equivalent to that the more usually used automotive paints. So the equivalent amount of Duplicolor needed may well be as much as sixteen quarts. If you want clear coat also that alters the equation a bit but Duplicolor still tends to come out as not such a bargain as it might first appear.

You can't directly price compare a quart of Duplicolor to a quart of say, single stage traditional auto paint. Car paint must be "reduced" (like adding paint thinner) before spraying. At about a 50-50 ratio. Therefore a quart of such paint will make two quarts of usable paint. Duplicolor comes "ready to apply". Therefore we can say that it is only half a quart of paint and half reducer. Therefore you'd have to buy two to seemingly equal a quart of single stage paint. To carry it further, it's a fair estimate that you need around a gallon of paint to paint an average car. Plus a gallon of reducer, of course. Painters have noted that it takes quite a bit more lacquer to provide coverage equivalent to that the more usually used automotive paints. So the equivalent amount of Duplicolor needed may well be as much as sixteen quarts. If you want clear coat also that alters the equation a bit but Duplicolor still tends to come out as not such a bargain as it might first appear.